Basic water heater features Residential gas overview

• Water Heaters 101
• Residential
• Gas and Electric

• Outline

• Basic water heater features
• Residential gas overview
• Residential electric overview
• Q&A

• Dip Tube

• Dielectric Water Connections

• Standard Water Heater Features

• Anode Rod

• Glass Lining

• Heat Traps

• T&P Valve

• Drain Valve

• T&P Relief Valve

• Supplied with every water heater
• Designed for emergency situations and opens when a sufficient level of pressure, or temperature is reached
• This allows the heated water to spill out, thus relieving the system

Water Connections

• On the top or side of every water heater tank, you'll find water supply connections.
• The water connections allow cold or tepid water to enter the tank and hot water to exit the tank.
• Corrosion can often occur at water connections points due to the joining of two dissimilar metals.

• Bradford White’s Dielectric Waterway Fittings
• Unique steel-to-plastic construction that prevents corrosion.
• Creates a dielectric
• waterway by insulating
• the inside of the metal
• casing, thus inhibiting
• internal corrosion from
• the two adjoined metals.

The dip tube is designed to direct the incoming cold water to the bottom of the heater.

• The dip tube is designed to direct the incoming cold water to the bottom of the heater.
• Without a dip tube the cold water coming into heater would just mix with some of the hot water at the top of the tank on its way to the outlet.

• Bradford White’s Hydrojet™ Total Performance System
• Engineered to reduce costly sediment
• buildup in the tank.
• Creates a more thorough mixing of water,
• reducing thermal
• stratification
• Increases first hour delivery

• Dip Tube